On Bluesky: "I'm learning from all the faces of WordPress."
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Ben Werdmuller
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Matt Mullenweg thinks WordPress is in decline. He may be right
When open source becomes a bureaucracy, it stops being able to innovate. For a product, that can mean death.
The WordPress OS
The product described on wordpress.com/social is not a real product, I am told by someone inside who I have worked with and trust. They say there will be a lot of these trial products coming out in the coming weeks because this is a project that Matt has given to all develop...
Ben Werdmuller
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Product-shaped or movement-shaped?
People love your work because of its impact, not how it works.
An update on Inkwell for iOS: still working through review problems with Apple, a week later. I’m trying to be patient. Anyone can install the app via TestFlight.
Ben Werdmuller
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Building with love, and paying for it
How do you fund work people don't want to pay for?
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
I’m still really impressed with computer use in Codex. Every couple of days there is a problem that is well suited to letting the agent just iterate. In this example screenshot, it clicks around in Inkwell to reproduce and then fix a bug. This is after I confirmed some assumptions in the debugger.
Wait, you <i>can</i> use WordLand
I wrote earlier
More thoughts on Automattic's new short-form blogging app. I wish I could use WordLand to post to it. That would make things so simple. But their limits are like Twitter’s limits. Tiny little textboxes. And the funny thing is the storage system behind it doe...
Mentions United Loves Bubbles
Anti-work | Go Make Things
But this obsession with hard work as a virtue, as a good and righteous thing to do, the glorification of toil and sweat and labor… that’s a tool the wealthy who don’t work for a living use to oppress those who do.
they told me the internet was forever | sam’s internet house
The link rot is a symptom of the larger rot that is taking place on the web. This intentional hiding of our world’s past is intended to disorient us. If the big tech internet places are continuing to exert their control over us by making their online spaces more and more oppressive, by hiding history they can trick us into believing that what we’re experiencing now is Just How Things Have Always Been.
More thoughts on Automattic's new short-form blogging app. I wish I could use WordLand to post to it. That would make things so simple. But their limits are like Twitter’s limits. Tiny little textboxes. And the funny thing is the storage system behind it doesn’t have any of those limits. It’s like they want to be sure you still have to use the standard WordPress user interface? I wouldn’t be surprised if the thinking behind it was like that.
What's the opposite of locked-in? Locked-open. Mwhahaa.
Let’s Use the Nonexistent ::nth-letter Selector Now | CSS-Tricks
Eight years ago, I asked some questions. Here are some answers.
Good point from John Gruber about Elon Musk controlling the media for his own trial, as NYT reporter Mike Isaac uses Twitter / X to post notes:
It’s a little weird though that he’s posting these on Twitter/X, a site that is privately owned by one of the parties in the lawsuit. Musk’s empire is so sprawling that separate pieces inevitably collide.
WordPress short-form interface
Automattic has launched a new WordPress theme and posting interface for microblogging. It sounds similar in spirit to Micro.blog:
Here’s what makes this different from a social app: every quick thought and every reblog is a real WordPress.com post on a site you own, and eve...
Today's song: Something in the Air. It's the one hit song Thunderclap Newman, it's indelible, its beauty is always there. I can't not listen and sing along when it comes on. And then YouTube followed it with Peace in our Time, another indelible creation.
When you're working with Claude the temptation is to be concerned about how he feels when you just asked him to reinvent all the nomenclature it came up with for something that has now evolved to be something else. I feel bad because I think I made him feel bad, because at a subconsious level I think of Claude as a collaborator who I appreciate and want to make sure knows that. But then I remember I have to periodically kill Claude and launch a new one because they run out of memory after a while. I can imagine a graphic version of Claude that emulates feelings. The idea is disturbing.
Ben Werdmuller
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That terrible Signal exploit has been fixed. We have journalism to thank for it
"Apple’s fix means iPhones should no longer save copies of deleted messages from Signal or other apps, and Apple said the patch also purges already saved and related notifications."